Final report on this. After very close examination I cannot find any hairlines at all on this coin. At PF-65 on this vintage, you might expect...
Great concise history. Not my area but really gave me some perspective. My family traces back to the Saxon domination.
Update: I just received this coin (3 days from CA to FL via USPS). The TruView photo is a very fair representation of the coin. Frankly, I was...
I'm giving it a 64 even though I think on a good day the TPGs might well call it a 65 for the luster bump.
OK, here's the reveal. Thanks everyone for playing. There were 17 responses: XF - 1 PR-64 - 4 PR-65 - 9 PR65+ - 1 PR-66 - 1 PR-68 - 1 CAC...
I spent half the morning looking for the magazine article that I remembered that discussed the pronunciation of "disme" but I couldn't find it...
Jack, I see you posted this Saturday night but it only appeared in my listing this morning (Tuesday). Keep up this good work and I look forward...
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Don't leave me in suspese! How do you prronounce "Feuchtwanger"?
I have read in several reliable sources that "disme" was pronounced in the 18th century as "dime".
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